If you look at the Recently Read section of my Goodreads profile on my blog, you will see I mostly listen to books and plays on Audible.

I used to love to pick up a paperback and just sit there on the couch all day to digest the book page by page. Unfortunately, that involves quiet and little distraction, which I get very little these days and with my anxiety dialed to near maximum these days, I find concentration on a page super hard. So I have to choose an alternative to digest a good juicy story and that’s by listening to audiobooks and plays.

Lately, I have been sticking to full-cast audio-dramas. I started listening to old 1950’s radio plays in 2018 and after I heard all the good ones like Suspense, Gunsmoke, and Dragnet, I transitioned over to listen audio plays on Audible. From what I recently learned, this is fairly new. I had a hard time finding full-cast audio plays on Audible before 2020 but once we were all safely locked inside our own homes, remote recording fell into place, apparently. These days, there are so many full-cast audio plays on Audible than at my rate, I may never get to the audiobooks in my library.

I’m not reading or listening to any book right now as I’m writing this post. I just finished listening to another re-imagination of the Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde. This was the second re-imagination of this classic tale I’ve listened to, the last one was probably in 2020. This version was much different and more thrilling than the previous version.

It’s about 4 hours long. I tend to stick to audio plays that’s between 90 minutes to 4 hours, though I have gone 6 hours and longer before. Those stories will have to be very compelling to get me to stick around.

The longest audiobook I’ve ever listened to was probably 11-22-63 by Stephen King, which was about 30 hours. I listened to this audiobook before the pandemic, when we had to be in the office every day. It took me about a week to finish that book. I still don’t know how I managed to keep up the plot on that one but I guess it’s good to have a wild imagination because the story was playing in my head the whole time.

I guess my only gripe about audiobook is when the male narrator tries to do female narrations. I’ve heard some very bad ones over the years and those makes me cringe.

I know this is supposed to be a post about reading a book but I think listening to an audiobook should still counts as reading. I read novels to gain inspirations and I feel listen to a novel will achieve the same goal, at least to me it does.